It is a christians' duty to spread the gospel.We are to be
as a voice in the desert crying prepare ye the way of the L-rd.
If no one will listen,we are to shake the dust off our feet and
move along.

I like the cat in your avatar.

I think the situation on ATS is different than the situation where Jesus told his disciples the instructions you quote. Is there anybody on ATS that
doesn't know the basic ideas of Christianity? Christians might make themselves feel better by defending their faith or whatever, but that's all
they are accomplishing (other than making Christianity look bad to non-Christians). (Just my opinion)

See my post a few above this one.... I see the OP as hating on others who don't believe like he/she does. So if you don't see that, then I guess you
wouldn't see much. If you don't feel like looking back at my previous post, basically I called the OP out on saying that I and people like me should
just kill ourselves now, because we obviously have no point in existing because we don't believe the same way as Christians do.

I usually ignore the religious threads,coz i'm not interested in your religion or anyone else's as a matter of fact.
Recently i got involved in one,because i hate to see everything not christian labeled "evil".The OP of the thread was trying to "save our
souls",but the way he/she did it was only showing ignorance and hate.

Yes the sacred duty of the christians is to spread the word,i respect that,BUT :
a)by naming everything non christian "evil" you won't convince anyone.
b)make sure that what you are saying won't insult the intelligence of those who will read it.
c)don't be judgemental and insulting towards those who don't share your beliefs.
d)try to respect that i don't want to be saved by your god.

Maybe if you stop doing to others what you don't want them to do to you,the "hate" will stop.Maybe you lonewolf and the other christians should be
the first to stop the troll-christians,before the bad atheists of the forum jump in and give everyone a bad name.By not correcting your black ships of
the christian community you show the world that you agree with them,hence the hate towards every christian

Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
So you're not afraid of death (so you say), if thats the case...go kill yourself, because your life has no meaning, and it does not matter and
you're just as dead now as you would be 30 years down the road. You people are already dead you just haven't caught up to that fact yet. All that
you ever were will cease to exist, and you will be forgotten, and your names will pass from history and the memory of you will fade into oblivion.
Existence has no meaning for you, and you have no more hope for anything except to know that one day worms will eat your corpse.

I see every single day on here, people lacking basic understanding in fundamentals of Christianity, and making deceptive posts and creating myths.

It is our duty to dispell myths and to promote Truth

I think your mistakenly assuming that anybody who believes differently simply hasn't had a Bible quoted to them. What do you accomplish by quoting
the Bible to somebody who doesn't consider the Bible to be the final authority of truth on every issue?

When you were not a Christian was it because nobody had quoted the Bible to you?

But I have definitely seen hate filled Christians, and it's sickening (WBC comes to mind),

WBC is not, nor have they ever been a church of Christ. They became a "church" so they can go out and picket peoples funerals or soldiers returning
from abroad and say harsh things to people and rile them up so those people will come over and punch them in the face or violate their rights so they
can sue. They are a family full of lawyers who are hijacking the system, they are not, nor have they ever been believers in Christ and their actions
show it.

But it's bascially true..... without Christ you are already walking dead, and without Him chances are you will goto Sheol (the grave) and await
judgement......

Although I don't think you should kill yourself, and I doubt lonewolf does either, he was just trying to make a point...

I've told people on here to go live in the woods with wolves and tie meat around there necks, because they said living with wolves is better than
living with Christians.....and I also asked someone who denied Christ died on the cross if I could have some of my friends stand around and beat them
for hours then crucify them and see if they survive....me and my friends would never beat and crucify someone, I was just illustrating a point.....

These are just euphemisms though, I am not actually TELLING someone to go live in the woods with wolves OR ELSE, I'm just saying....if Christians are
so brutal to live around, go prove your theory correct that wolves are more peaceful, otherwise keep your mouth zipped about how "hateful" us
Christians are.....

Fair enough. However, I am not dead. I am quite full of life and I enjoy it very much. I have problems, yes, but so do you and everyone else.

Here we go.... I actually was a Christian for many, many years. I've written about it in some other threads. I was a very good one. I actually did
love people (actually I still do, I don't need the Bible, Jehovah or Jesus, or whoever to tell me to) and I served a lot in my church. I used to do
just like y'all do, I would share what I believed to be the truth to whoever would listen. I had it heavy on my heart to bring people to salvation. I
know how you think, on this issue at least, and I commend you for it. I know what it's like. I guess I'm getting a taste of my own medicine now, or
at least what medicine I used to give out.

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